The plans for my Jeep have changed A LOT since I made my original build thread and I think now is about the right time to make a new one.

It spent 10 years in Florida (where its originaly from) then the next 11 here in MA, on Cape Cod mostly sitting in a garage. I brought it home for the awsome price of 600 bucks.

Got it home put a new clutch in it. Then got some 32's and rode those on the sagging stock springs untill I got my 4" Rough Country lift. Since then it has slowly been turning into a rig.

The long term goal is to have a cool jeep with a perfect mix of offroad capabilities and at the same time decent road manners. It will be geared way more towards offroad capabilities as I have a seperate daily driver but I dont want a trailer queen at this point in my life so on road legality is a must. As I build it I am selecting parts because of avalability, cost, and most importaintly reliability.

Went and pulled my CJ 258 engine today. I also got the whole wiring harness to the jeep, minus the headlight and parking light harness. Also got the whole stock CJ dash. Parts came out of a 1980 CJ.

Grand Total: $150 Off to a good start with this engine swap. (Pics tomarrow)

The plan is to rip out my YJ harness minus the rear and front light harness (as mentioned above). I will then put the CJ 258 and dash in my Jeep and the whole CJ harness. Splicing the headlights, tailights, parking lamps into the CJ harness. Should be FAIRLY easy.

But first I need to get and rebuild a 4.0 head. Then I will still need some headers a AX15 and Dana 300.